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September 10, 2014 : 3-D Printing Builds the Future

The Mini Page is a syndicated, four-page tabloid written for young children found each Wednesday in The Denver Post. This issue of The Mini Page is available through the eEdition Archive to registered eEdition subscribers

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Activities:

1. Paste newspaper photos of five items you wish you could make with a 3-D printer. Write a sentence to explain each choice.

2. Pick one of your five items. Find materials in the newspaper that you could use to make the item without a 3-D printer.

3. Ask friends and family what they would like to make with a 3-D printer. Are any of their choices the same as yours?

4. How are these important for 3-D printing: (a) bioprinter, (b) prosthetics, (c) bioink and (d) plastic?

5. Find five people in your newspaper who have jobs where they could use 3-D printers. Explain how they could use the printers in their work.

Mini Page activities meet many state and national educational standards. Each week we identify standards that relate to The Mini Page content and offer activities that will help your students reach them.

This week's standard:
Students understand science and technology. (Science: Science and Technology)

(standards by Dr. Sherrye D. Garrett, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi)

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